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Still-life Prints For Sale
Insekt I - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Insect I is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981.
Mixed colored aquatint and etching.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin....
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Vicky Oldfield, Moments of Reflection, Limited Edition Still Collograph Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Vicky Oldfield
Moments of Reflection
Limited Edition Hand Coloured Collagraph Print
Edition of 30
Sheet Size: H 49cm x W 40cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Anaconda II, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Anaconda II
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 22
Image Size: 26.5 x 18 inches
Size: 30 in....
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
TOP GUN Soundtrack Cassette Tape Photography 30x50 Pop Art Photograph Pop Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of the "Top Gun" soundtrack.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These iconic tapes have become mor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Botanica Magnifica, Floral Photorealist Print on Metal by Jonathan Singer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jonathan Singer (American, b. 1949)
Title: Botanica Magnifica
Year: circa 2010
Medium: Digital Photograph on Metal
Image Size: 45 x 40 in. (114.3 x 101.6 cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
My Window. Art Edition (No. 251–500), iPad drawing ‘No. 281’, 23rd July 2010
Located in Bristol, GB
8 colour inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper, with printed book
Edition of 250 (print), Edition of 1,000 (book)
(78 x 65 cm / 30.7 x 25.6 in)
Signed, numbered and dated (prin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet
Guy Allen, Bumblebee, Affordable Animal Art, Limited Edition Etching
By Guy Allen
Located in Deddington, GB
Guy Allen
Bumblebee
Etching
Edition Size: 75
Year Completed: 2019
Image Size Diameter: 28cm
Approximate Size if Framed: H50cm x W50cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Salvador Dali - The Tournament of Galore - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching
From La Quête du Graal
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Handsigned
Edition: 38/100
From the rare additional suite of 100 aside from the edition of ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Affresco di Aranci - Orange Trees
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This photograph captures the timeless beauty of an aged 18th-century Italian fresco painting. The artwork features potted orange trees, their vibrant green foliage and citrus fruits providing a striking contrast. Set against the backdrop of an expansive Italian countryside, the landscape unfolds with rolling hills and distant vistas.
The significance of the orange trees in the fresco is deeply rooted in the historical context of 18th-century Italy. During this period, the cultivation of citrus fruits, including oranges, became a symbol of prosperity and luxury. Italy, with its favorable climate, was a prime location for cultivating oranges, and their presence in frescoes often represented affluence, abundance, and the beauty of the Italian landscape.
Fidel Santos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Ink
Diamond Dust Shoes (Black and White)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Diamond Dust Shoes (Black and White)" is a screen print by American pop artist Andy Warhol. It is signed and editioned verso, " 18/60 Andy Warhol" Stamped verso, "© Andy Warhol 1980...
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Holiday Greeting Card for Madame R. G. Michel & Family (Carriage Clock, Vase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Holiday Greeting Card for Madame R. G. Michel & Family
(Carriage Clock, Vase & Flowers)
Etching & color aquatint, 1986
Signed in pencil lower right
Printed on BFK Rives paper
Annapi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
ROCKY 36x48 Sylvester Stallone Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Rocky" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Matisse, Série G, var. 2 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bob Marley X Shepard Fairey Print To Catch A Fire Dennis Morris Signed Music
Located in Draper, UT
"Marley was sometimes fiery, sometimes joyful, sometimes contemplative, but always visionary and poetic. I love this intimate, thoughtful moment Dennis captured and I’m honored to tr...
Category
2010s Street Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Simon Dry, Bashful, Sweet Art, Contemporary Still Life Print, Bright Artwork
By Simon Dry
Located in Deddington, GB
Simon Dry
Bashful
Limited Edition Silkscreen Print
Edition of 50
Size: H 46cm x W 64cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Bashful is a limited edition print by Simon Dry. Limited edition print of the original ‘Bashful’ Pink Shrimp Sweet image by Simon Dry. The first print onto Fabriano paper is over painted in white by Simon and then over printed again to create a uniquely textured hand finished surface. Each print becomes a richly coloured and individual piece of art in a limited edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist.
Simon Dry trained as a graphic designer, graduating with a BA (Hons) from Ravensbourne College of Art & Design. He has run Drydesign in London, Dublin and Suffolk, using skills learned in this time to create SweetArt along with his wife, Vic. Artist Simon Dry has created highly original art of much loved sweets, made solely from discarded Quality Street wrappers. These iconic artworks feature Dolly Mixture, Fab ice lolly, Flying Saucers, Jelly Babies...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Clare Halifax, F is for Flamingo, Limited Edition Alphabet Print, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax
F is for Flamingo
Limited Edition 3 colour screen print
Edition of 100
Sheet Size: H 38cm x W 37cm x 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Hand printed by the artist onto somerset satin ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Nouveau Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
D is for Dog, Clare Halifax, Alphabet Art, Limited Edition Print, Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax
D is for Dog
Limited Edition 3 Colour Silkscreen Print
Edition of 100
Image Size: H 35cm x W 35cm
Sheet Size: H 37cm x W 38cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
(Title Unknown)-Botanical Print. Printed in Italy.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Botanical Print. Plate-signed. Measures 22.50 x 16.375 in. Unframed. Printed in Italy. Good Condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Boston Modernist Color Etching Smoking Pipe Aaron Fink Pop Art Print Americana
By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Etching on paper titled "Untitled (Colored Pipe),"
Depicting an abstracted pipe with bright pink smoke floating from the bowl.
Hand signed in pencil and dated 1987 along the lower right; numbered 25/50 along the lower left.
Provenance: Distinguished corporate collection, Minnesota.
Unframed; 22.5 X 30 inches
Born in Boston, Fink received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Jonas Wood (after), Large Shelf Still Life, Poster, 2017
By Jonas Wood
Located in London, GB
Large Shelf Still Life
Offset Lithograph Poster
2017
Excellent condition.
The back of the print has the artist's name, title, date and exhibition on the reverse.
23 × 23 in (58.5 × 58.5 cm).
Notes: Executed in 2017, this piece is from an edition of unknown size and is published on the occasion of Shio Kusaka...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Still Life with Grapes, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph print by Lowell Nesbitt from 1975. A colorful still life that combines both organic and geometric elements.
Still Life with Grapes
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–...
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
After Pablo Picasso - Cubist Still Life - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso - Cubist Still Life - Pochoir
Dimensions: 48.5 x 36 cm
1962
Edition of 260
Daniel Jacomet, LEDA, Editions d'Art
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is not just a man and his ...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
yours in Trust, We Must Protect it From Fire original 1939 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen-backed original 1939 James Montgomery Flagg vintage poster: You're in Trust; we must protect it from fire. "If we would have forests--we must prevent fires: Maryland Stat...
Category
1930s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
JASPER JOHNS The Seasons, 1990 - Hand-Signed, Etching and Acquatint
By Jasper Johns
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"The Seasons" is a compelling artwork by Jasper Johns that delves into artifacts and seasonal symbols to represent the epochs of life and the cycles of growth and aging. This piece, ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
"Ali" Muhammad Ali Portrait 28x40 Boxing Photography Pop Art Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Ali" is a photomosaic artwork by "Destro". The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
36x48 "Star Wars" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art by Destro Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro.
We all remember those iconic nights at the video store.
Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
Category
1950s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction 30x50 Photography Cassette Tape Pop Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Dest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life with Violin Natura Morta con Violino - Cubism Italian Futurism
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Gino Severini" in the lower right margin and signed in the plate "Severini" in the lower right corner of t...
Category
1960s Futurist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
“Just Dessert" Poster. Copyright New York Graphic Society Ltd. Printed in U.S.A.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 26 x 29.5 in. Unframed. Description: Print No. 5002. Copyright New York Graphic Society Ltd. Printed in USA. Image is in Good Condition. White border shows signs of ...
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
ORIENTAL BOUQUET
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 23 x 21 inches. Image size: 18 x 18 inches. Edition of 300.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity includ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Les Marguerites
Located in New York, NY
Boldly colored floral motif color aquatint. Signed and numbered 48/300 in pencil by Braque.
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Aquatint, Lithograph
Still Life with Snippers
Located in Buffalo, NY
Richard Huntington (b. 1936) is an american painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews, and Art Ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Cubism - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso - Cubism - Pochoir
Dimensions: 48.5 x 36 cm
1962
Edition of 260
Daniel Jacomet, LEDA, Editions d'Art
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picas...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reliquary Paimpont, Modern Lithograph by Karl Kasten
Located in Long Island City, NY
Karl Kasten, American (1916 - 2010) - Reliquary Paimpont, Year: 1968, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 6/10, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jonas Wood, Holiday - 2018, Screenprint, Still Life, Signed Print
By Jonas Wood
Located in Hamburg, DE
Jonas Wood (American, b. 1977)
Holiday, 2018
Medium: Screenprint on Rising Museum Board
Dimensions: 26.7 × 20.3 cm (10 1/2 × 8 in)
Edition of 250: Hand-signed and numbered
Condition:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
Category
1940s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Window-No. 25
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Window-No. 25
Color mezzotint, September 2009
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 70 (16/70)
Provenance:
Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, Donors of Art In...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Blue Iris, Photorealist Etching on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers.
Blue Iris
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date:...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
30x50 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kimono Fabric Design
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Color woodcut with pochoir embellishments on fine silver mica ground
By Kano Shuho, or Yamakawa Shuho, 20th century Japanese Artist
Category
1930s Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Blind Fiddler, English antique engraving after Sir David Wilkie
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Blind Fiddler'
Engraving by John Burnet after Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841)
India-laid. Proof before letters. 'Second Plate' printed under e...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Still Life with Fruit, from 1¢ Life
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: Still Life with Fruit
Portfolio: 1¢ Life
Medium: Lithograph in colors
Year: 1964
Edition: 2000
Frame Size: 20 5/8" x 29 1/2"
Sheet Size: 16 1/4" x 22 3/...
Category
1960s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fern 25
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Carborundum, intaglio
Year: 2007
Signed and numbered from the edition of 25
Image Size: 12 x 12 inches
Paper size: 23 x 19.25 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Intaglio
'Celebration (Homage to Sharon)' signed artist's proof I/XXV giclée print
Located in Milwaukee, WI
‘Celebration (Homage to Sharon)’ is an artist’s proof giclée print, signed and dated by the artist in the lower right. This piece is a part of Barnett’s ‘Morph Dog Series,’ so named for his use of a “morph dog”—a dog-shaped foam sculpture that transforms into a cube when turned inside out—to paint. Against a muted horizon, multicolored rings...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée
Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue) /// Botanical Botany Plants Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue)" (Syngenesie; Polygamie, Plate 648)
Portfolio: Histoire Na...
Category
1740s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Spring Rhododendron II (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
1997 Tony Awards Poster Signed by Celebrity Presenters Autographed Broadway
Located in New York, NY
1997 Tony Awards Poster Signed by Celebrity Presenters Autographed Broadway.
Offered is a 1997 Tony Awards poster signed by the presenters, includi...
Category
1990s Performance Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Spring Rhododendron I (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Rhododendron Bud II (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Rhododendron Bud (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Japanese Maple (18 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
36x48 "Goodfellas" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Photograph Fine Art Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro.
We all remember those iconic nights at the video store.
Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Lantern-Poster. Copyright Aaron Ashley, Inc.
By Carolyn Blish
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 22.5 x 27.75 inches and is Unframed. Good/Fair Condition-signs of wear consistent with age and handling.
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Contrast from Order and Chaos by Maurits Cornelis Escher 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on smooth wove paper, 1950.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition.
Realized in February 1950, this work is self-explanatory: in the center we find a transparent d...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Philip Guston "Studio Corner" Lithograph, Brooke Alexander Gallery
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Marking(s); notes: signed, blind stamp; ed. 39/50; 1980
Country of origin; materials: Canadian-American; lithograph
Dimension...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still-Life Prints and Other Still-Life Wall Art for Sale on 1stDibs
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, original still-life prints and other still-life wall art can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, popular still-life prints often feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these still-life paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers that were the subject of their work.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting and printmaking, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
Still-life art enthusiasts and collectors of Warhol prints have lots of reasons to love the cultural icon — when Warhol brought the image of a Campbell’s soup can out of the supermarket and into the studio, in 1961, he secured his legacy as a radical contemporary artist. After Warhol painted the soup cans, he realized that he could more readily achieve the mass-produced aesthetic he was seeking with silkscreens, also called screen-prints, and he began experimenting with silkscreening on canvas. He used the technique to print paintings of Coke bottles and dollar bills (both in 1962), as well as his treasured Brillo box sculptures (1964).
When shopping for a still-life print, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, the collection of still-life prints and other still-life wall art includes works by Jonas Wood, Alex Katz, Nina Tsoriti and many more.